Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 29, 2016

This is the (mistaken) idea that yahoos who want to terrorize other people into doing things their way are not terrorists if they call themselves “real ’Muricans”..Your guide to turbans:https://smpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/turban-primer-red-eye-2012-online.jpg

Eddie sums it all up.

Occupy Wall Street.

Well one of you is now dead,,,,,,how’s that working out for you? BTW the deceased wore a cowboy hat too.

:D though in hindsight, slow response may have been better?As it is, I believe the Government has been trying not to make this a recruitment tool for Ya’all queda. (sp?) Sadly, with all terrorist groups, there is no good way to go about that. Much as I very much miss my Grandparents a lot, I am glad they are not here to see all that they and theirs and mine fought for in the two Great Wars has been squandered on the foolish.

BTW, I own a couple of really nice cowboy hats, OK, one is actually an Acubra from Down Under, I used to have a Stetson straw hat too, but it went from beat up cool, to just beat up. What can I say I’m ambisaddlerous and hae worn many hats. I have an old hunt cap and a newer Charles Owen too, plus a couple for just riding. Lately haven’t been riding much, long stories not meant for comment sections. Making my ponies giant dogs for now. Much as I know some people have to make horses a business, I still don’t know how they do it. Once I get them, they are pretty much stuck with me.Anyways….. That said I get the gist of the comment above, that I originally started commenting about. Yeah, I get weird when I’m sick, get over it.

But, then, these Occupy Bird Sanctuary people didn’t actually shoot anyone. I think one needs to do some violence to be properly called a terrorist. That, and being the guys on the “other side” of whoever is doing the calling.

Just saw the video of what happened before the terrorist was shot. After nearly running over a police officer, he exited the vehicle, put his hands up, thought about it and was definitely trying to get to the gun in his pocket. Sorry, but he made his decision. And no I’m not happy, this whole situation has been a whole lot of things, but not happy nor patriotic.He could have kept his hands up and cooperated with law enforcement. Which is what I hear time and again when a dark skinned person is killed by police, whether they were reaching for a gun or a cell phone or just plain running away. What’s saddest is he has 11 kids and has left the responsibility for raising them to the eldest daughter, who is all of 17 years old. Who will now likely blame the government for the bad decisions her father made all on his own. Sigh. Madness.The greater madness will be the people that would have rather have seen him kill the State Troopers and FBI agents. Seriously, who would prefer that?

A burp from Eddie would kill most cats, or at least make them pass out and fall on the floor, but not Pauley, tough old bird….Hey, remember his cute little gas mask a while back?

I work park time on a ranch in North Texas. I know ranchers who would be more than happy to pay the cheap rent on thousands of acres of government land. It’s hard for landowning cattle ranchers to make ends meet. When you own land you have to pay taxes on it. Then they have to compete with cattle ranchers who pay (or don’t pay) very little to graze thousands of acres of public lands.Some of the ranchers have given up on cattle and are surviving on what oil and gas is produced on their property. Yea, get an oil well right? All the mineral rights are owned by large energy companies that bought the mineral rights for next to nothing in the 1950s. The ranch where I work has several oil and gas wells. One well pays the ranch a whole $6.00 (yes, six dollars) a month. Some don’t produce anything. The rancher leases hunting rights, a cattle lease and sells water to energy companies from tanks he has built. With no government assistance or free land. He has to support bulldozers and equipment. (Our newest bulldozer is a 1971 Caterpillar). We have a lot of broken down equipment that he can’t afford to fix.These ranchers don’t have nice horses and handtooled saddles and new Stetsons as I have seen on the videos of the Bundyites. The North Texas ranchers and cowboys are working men, using old pickups or 4 wheelers to get around. The good horses, hand tooled saddles and nice Stetsons are expensive. So only rodeo cowboys can afford them.Oh yeah, some months the rancher I work for doesn’t have enough money to pay me. I’m retired from a factory job so I work for perks, mostly. Sign on the wall of the local cafe: BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL RANCHER IS A WIFE WITH A JOB IN TOWN.

An armed takeover usually is Treason-see Ft. Sumter. OTOH everybody realizes the people in the cowboy hats aren’t going to do anything and will fade away again.

Also important not to be called something like ‘Farook’.

Brilliant writing Wiley. The enemy within.

I found it very interesting. So many similarities to what lead to the riots. Same type activitySame type of self-victimizationSame type of threatSame type of resultSame type of blaming the law enforcement by the “victim’s” alliesThe only thing different: No riots.

The Bundy Bedlamites have only to look in a mirror to find the people to blame.

They are indeed FREEDOM FIGHTERS! They are fighting to get everything for free. But unlike welfare, conservatives agree with the moochers. They are white so it is okay.

Muslim Arabs in the middle east typically wear a keffiyeh. And there are some Arabs that are not Muslims, but I don’t know what they wear typically for headgear.

victims lol. I love the cry of the terrorists. and guns. lol what a combination

Eddie can use that guy’s hat when he vomits from all the vitriolic rhetoric!

ENOUGH SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How about if your a liberal and a Democrat and you occupy something, Wiley. You get all sorts of gummerment support.

Ahmed is taking over a federal facility???

He is wearing us thin. His answer reveals more than his intent. Glad Eddie brought up a good answer.

Rea; Murkins can’t ever be terrorists!! that’s a commie pinko left wing terrorist accusation. lol

got to love the gun nuts, totally off

Real Murkins, that is. lol

You know, I feel like it’s sad that every “bad guy” calls themselves “Freedom Fighters.” Michael Moore called the Iraqi insurgents “Freedom Fighters” against US troops in Iraq a few years ago. It seems everybody has a different meaning of something.In a way, I don’t blame these ranchers getting angry because if feels like our country is losing more of it’s freedoms day by day. For example, I lived in WA state until 2008 because I felt liberals where trying to run everything. WA state has 3 counties (That have more population than everybody any other county in WA state) and they run over the other 40 something counties in what to do. King County residents in the Rural areas east of Seattle CAN’T use 60% of their own use. Maybe because of fears of Climate Change. Anyway, I left and went back to my family in SC (One person who complained that John Kerry lost the presidential election called the South as “Jesus Land.”)I feel people in Maine aren’t really these people in this strip because it seems rural people are more conservative. Anyway, I’m a dying breed. I am a Conservative. I will try to persuade people what they are doing is wrong. But if they won’t listen to me, they will learn & they are something what my late Mother and Aunt Queenie call as being “Hardheaded.”

Wiley expressed the reality of “terrorism” in America, it requires being “foreign” in reality, or myth, as those “good classic Americans” in cowboy hats, are just “good old boys”, out to protect their image, not matter how little they fit it. Ammon Bundy for example is an auto mechanic by trade and government loan, not a rancher on public, cheap, land.

Hmm, I wore an Akubra “cattleman” hat out on the open range for over 20 years, my spouse finally bought me a new one because the “work” hat had become to worn to be presentable. Which IS actually a point made here previously, if unintentionally, all the occupiers at the refuge with “cabouy” hats were wearing headgear that had never seen a workday on the range. BTW; camo was much more in evidence than western shirts, and guns were worn by nearly all of them.

The sad reality is that Wiley correctly points out that America’s xenophobia doesn’t consider armed folks who look and talk like a John Wayne movie as “strangers”, but folks who “dress funny” even if unarmed, are.

The saddest part is that supporters of home grown terrorists, will now, even though the video proves he was a moron, consider him a martyr. He wanted suicide by cop, like so many mentally ill in America have done, and he got what he wanted.

Radical extremists have become far too accepted as “normal” in our culture, but they have to follow that “good old boy” persona. That’s what Wiley’s been pointing out, and Eddie defines.

I guess I missed the part about the people in Oregon beheading people and flying jetliners into buildings, killing innocent civilians. Wiley, you are a fraud.

You know you’re dealing with a real loony when Captin’ Eddie is the one making sense.

A ‘terrorist’ seems to be a non-governmental associated individual or group who engages in threats or actions that kill 4 or more people within the USA. So beginning back with the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma (or even before, if you prefer), how many people have died due to the actions of self-identified ‘Christians’ and how many by self-identified ‘Muslims’? So much easier to attack ‘other’ even when it is a much small threat.

Thought I’d add. The original Bundy situation is more like a family renting a house for 30 years, deciding they’d paid enough, stop paying rent. The landlord, for some reason, waiting 10 years for back rent, before demanding it. The family, saying no it should just be given to them, because they’ve been there so long.

Wiley: don’t know if you were aware, but Pete French came to Oregon with exactly the mindset of free government grazing land, and gun (he used), that you were aiming at, he came in 1890’s to the area where the Malheur Refuge is now located. He was finally shot and killed by a “homesteader” who turned the tables on him.

The question I have for the media is, why did they chose the still on the video showing him with his hands up? not a still with him nearly running over an officer, or frantically reaching in his pocket? This is when some begin to wonder if the media is trying to feed a frenzy of deniers? People who don’t watch the whole video are going to think, look, he did have his hands up. When the fact of the matter, was all he had to do was keep his hands up. He was not a ring leader, much as he pretended to be, so he would have spent more time in a court room, than prison. His 17 year old daughter wouldn’t have to be taking on a 55 year old mans responsibilities. Selfish was his act.

Non Sequitur has been one of my favorite comics for decades. Unfortunately, Wiley has crossed the line from entertainment to fomenting political hate. Wiley doesn’t carry a gun, though. So I guess that makes him somehow superior. But, I don’t need it. Bye.

Ah yes, the problem of relevance and producing toons in advance.

BTW: Wiley’s theme here goes back to at least the “Sagebrush rebels” of the Reagan/James Watt era. Cattle grazing done before the Taylor Grazing Act in the 1930’s created the Grazing Service, later the BLM in 1946, did sever damage or total destruction of MILLIONS OF ACRES of grazing lands and native habitat across the west. Modern day ranchers, like but not limited to the Bundys, continue to do damage to the range, and damage all Taxpayers’ property. It actually is every bit as damaging as the “rioters” have done in our cities. Much of the damage, like massive seedlings of crested wheatgrass, have had government complicity in accommodating ranchers’ privilege, which is NOT a right.

Seriously, your argument is that tolerant people are intolerant in their tolerance?You could have saved yourself a lot of typing by just typing: “I know you are, but what am I?”

Since Wiley has decided to get political, he has lost this reader. Bye

The correct answer is Terrorists mass murder unarmed civilians.

We know that the guys in the cowboy hats are gonna sit there & bitch about the guv’ment & can be pick off singly as they go on beer runs. We don’t know much about turbans, but have heard they don’t drink.

Terrorists use terror as a weapon. Taking over an area of land and a couple of builds is not terror. No one was held captive. Big difference

Lots of us have been noticing that…..

What’s a little domestic terrorism between white folks?

YADAYADAYADAYADA

In his case I don’t think it’s because he’s white and wearing a cowboy hat, I think it’s because armed snowmen conquering a restroom in the middle of the woods, is not actually even mildly spooking anyone, terrorist imply terror, his plot is too stupid and harmless to qualify, terrorism require a minimum of competence, and this guy failed to reach that.

Comment from the future: Get ready to reprint this explanation every week.